I find it hard to get all het up by stuff like this, I guess because I learned in like 1980 that The Antiques and Arts Weekly will publish any press release you send them verbatim if you are also an advertiser, and even sometimes if you're not an advertiser. (Well okay, they might not publish all your photos, but they won't touch your text!) You get: free advertising for giving them free content! And they have a huge and wide free distribution along with plenty of subscribers (who subscribe to get the ads!)

Suffice it to say: I learned to go with the idea that it's up to the reader to judge the quality of the work in a publication.

If an industry tout, real or memorex, is offering good solid helpful objective information, no big deal. Still, like everyone else in the market in those days, I learned to: read the Maine Antique Digest, with the real paid reporters, and as for the Antiques and Arts Weekly I'd browse the ads and ignore the articles.  Not coincidentally: The former was funded by an old Maine family and was always begging for subscriptions to balance the budget; the latter was a fairly profitable operation.